Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Text

Introduction

1.   Falstaff’s Conveyances

2.   “Creditors and Others”: The Purpose of 13 Eliz., c. 5 (1571)

3.   Carried Away in Arcadia

4.   Purchase and Consideration in Faerie Queene IV and V

5.   Coke, Collusion, and Twyne’s Case (1601)

6.   Shylock’s Penalty

Conclusion

Index